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Official Egyptian sources have announced that the government has started to send medical and humanitarian aid to Syrians suffering as a result of the revolution in their country. The...
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The Tunisian government has sent humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey. The consignment was sent on the direct orders of President Moncef Marzouki and a similar aid flight...
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Dozens of Palestinians from Al-Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria have been refused entry to Jordan as they flee from the Syrian army's bombardment. Al-Jazeera reported that the refugees tried to...
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Anadolu Agency reported that the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey has confirmed the birth of 2,500 children in the Syrian refugee camps across Turkey since the first...
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The State of Kuwait has donated $53 million to UNICEF to help Syrian children inside Syria and refugees in neighbouring countries, and $15 million to UNRWA to assist Palestinian...
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Inspectors from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees have praised Kuwait's leading role in humanitarian work, notably in contributing to the UNHCR's own efforts in the field. Such...
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Jordan's Minister of Health has appealed for international support to help the country deal with one million refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria. Mjalli Mheilan said that the influx...
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has laid out his most pessimistic image of Syria so far, saying that the humanitarian crisis there is "tragically indescribable". The country...
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Turkey's President Abdullah Gul met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Ankara on Tuesday at the start of a two-day visit. The two leaders discussed the current developments in...
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A Jordanian military official said on Thursday that around 6,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the border into Jordan over the past five days. The official said in a statement...
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"The number of the Syrian refugees in Jordan will make up 40 per cent of the total Jordanian population by the middle of the next year," Jordanian Foreign Minister...
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A senior Jordanian government official has denied that Jordan has closed its borders to Syrian refugees over the past few days, and stressed that the border remained open to...
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About 1,354 Palestinians, including 1,201 men and 153 women, have been killed by the Syrian regime since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, Action Group for Palestinians in Syria...
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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The repercussions of the revolution in Syria have overshadowed the lives of thousands of Palestinians living in refugee camps in the conflict torn country. Many of these...
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King Abdullah of Jordan said on Sunday that there will be no confederation between his country and Palestine until and unless an independent Palestinian state is established. Such a...
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The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said that 15 per cent of the Palestinian refugees in Syria have fled from...
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Jordan's King Abdullah II has expressed his fears that demographic changes in the kingdom could see him being toppled from the throne in the next year or so. This...
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The head of the Coalition of Syrian Businessmen in Egypt, Khaldoun Almauke, has revealed that the group's investors have decided to suspend their support for the Egyptian market until...
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The BBC has reported that thousands of Syrian refugees, from the Aleppo region, are fleeing to Iraqi Kurdistan. According to the report, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...
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The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon registered and awaiting registration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and its partners is now estimated to be...
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The Working Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria said on Sunday that a ship carrying hundreds of refugees sank in the Mediterranean after being fired on by the Libyan...
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After more than ten days, dozens of the bodies of the Palestinian and Syrian refugees who drowned when their boat sank early last week remain in the wreckage off...
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Palestinians organised a symbolic funeral on Wednesday in front of the Gaza seaport to honour the Palestinian and Syrian refugees who drowned off the Italian coast last week. Hundreds...
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Amnesty International has urged the countries neighbouring Syria, and particularly Jordan, to keep their borders open to all those fleeing the conflict. In a new report published on Thursday,...
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Four members of a Palestinian refugee family in Syria were killed on Friday night whilst trying to flee the continuous shelling of Palestinian refugee camps by Bashar al-Assad's army,...
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After it was rejected by Saudi Arabia, Jordan is expected to accept the Arab seat in the UNSC, Western diplomats said on Friday. Saudi rejected the seat in protest...
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The Palestinian government in Gaza has condemned the Egyptian authorities for their detention of over 650 Palestinian refugees who have fled from the war in Syria. Around 250 of...
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Israel has completed a new "security fence" along its frontier with Syria on the occupied Golan Heights. The old fence has been replaced by a hi-tech version, the construction...
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EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Palestinian refugees fleeing from the conflict in Syria are being welcomed warmly in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has pledged to offer a complete package...
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The Action Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria said on Tuesday that a refugee has been killed and several more arrested during clashes between regime and opposition forces. Malik...
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Syrian-born Al Jazeera presenter Faisal Al-Qasem has published a heartbreaking picture of a dead Syrian child, Wasim Zakur, saying that he starved to death. The little child appeared in...
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Chief of moral guidance department in the Jordanian army Colonel Odeh Shdefat affirmed on Friday that Syrian refugees need extra assistance during the current bad weather. Shdefat said that...
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